[Noisebridge-discuss] crackerdojo.com?

[jim]

+1 
   note: the bigger the number of people in a group, 
the more variance. can't expect a homogenous group 
ethic or style, law of numbers pretty much rules. 
like ghandi says, "do yo' thing, persist, it'll make 
a difference, have faith, la-la-la...." 
   i say get rid of the cracker... site (my one vote). 



On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 12:16 -0800, John Magolske wrote:
> I'm with Mitch on this. The main thing that brought me to Noisebridge
> in the first place was an atmosphere of open, friendly, sharing and
> collaboration. I'd hope this attitude could be shared between spaces
> as well as within them. If the scene were to be more about rivalry,
> competition & who's the most "cool", l33t or whatever, I'd definitely
> be spending my time elsewhere.
> 
> It's exciting to see so many hackerspaces popping up everywhere.
> Why not welcome and encourage each other? So what if each group has
> different ways of organizing & doing things, that's to be expected.
> Each community will have their own needs & context.
> 
> I don't understand why someone would take the time to put together
> this "joke". Whois lists a registrant of John Waters and a creation
> date of 19-Nov-09 for the crackerdojo.com domain. Is that funny? I
> don't think so. My concern is that this type of behavior will only
> serve to reflect badly upon us as a community.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> * Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> [091211 10:59]:
> > I got an email from David, the founder of Hacker Dojo, saying that
> > he and others at Hacker Dojo felt hurt by a website that is being
> > hosted on Pony:
> > 
> > http://www.crackerdojo.com/
> > 
> > I hadn't heard about it till I saw David's email. I checked it
> > out, and don't see anything but a poorly formatted version of the
> > HackerDojo website. So, it seems that someone took down the other
> > stuff. Whatever it was, it doesn't seem to have caused anything
> > useful.
> > 
> > Personally, I never understood rivalry (not even as a little kid).
> > Maybe the original site for crackerdojo was funny. But if it was at
> > the expense of others, then was that cool? Having not seen it, I can
> > only go by the hurt feelings that I clearly heard from David.
> > 
> > Hackerspaces have a lot to gain by collaborating. As I travel the
> > world, I foster this collaboration at hackerspaces everywhere. It
> > is one of the things that I think is totally awesome about the
> > community at large that we are creating (In fact, I'm here in
> > Singapore at the moment to be on a panel about this!).
> > 
> > I'm not sure what function the crackerdojo site is currently
> > serving. It is merely a poor copy of the hackerdojo site. Is it
> > worth keeping up on Pony?
> > 
> > Mitch.
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